Eva RidajováJuly 2000Nové StrasecíI attend distance studies at the Secondary Social and Legal School of the Evangelical Academy in Prague. I have finished my third year. The program runs for five years. In 1977, with the assistance of the Rajko Djuric Foundation, George Soros, and the Open Society Fund in Prague, this school opened the […]
John Erwin
It’s more than your right: it’s your duty
Ana AraujoVenezuela I’m looking for information about the whole Holocaust. I have found and heard some information in the Jewish community "Bejt Simcha”, and in the Terezin Initiative. I have visited Terezin and the Jewish museum about the concentration camp. But I have not found any written information about the Roma Holocaust here in the […]
He noticed a hand-carved violin on the kitchen table
Eva Ridajová Nové StrasecíAugust 2000This is the fourth year of my distance studies at the Secondary Social and Legal School in Prague. In the third year I met a Romany assistant – whose name I will keep to myself. We met in the university residence hall where we stay every three weeks. He was there with some […]
You pull the levers of democracy
John ShattuckU.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republicin conversation withJohn W. ErwinDirectorThe Stories Exchange ProjectU.S. Ambassador’s ResidencePrague28 November 2000John ShattuckThe Stories Exchange Project, I think, is a way of getting people totalk about things that matter to them: things that are in their heartsand in their backgrounds.People often see each other in settings where they speak […]
If we had a real table, real food…
The Stories Exchange Project 2000 Workshop V EastWest Institute Prague 19 June 2000 Jan Vesely Drug Prevention Program Brno We were looking for a form: how to present stories that have been gathered in the Stories Exchange Project. At first we felt like putting it on stage. So we turned to a guy from a […]
The main thing is I feel safe
Author: Jan Horvath Jr.Location: StudenkaI am seventeen years old.When I had successfully completing the ninth grade of the Grammar School in Brno, my father enrolled me in the Higher Technical Library and Information Systems School. My story started there. When I began in September as a freshman I was the center of attention. I was […]
What has he left to me? My name
Emilie HorackovaMimonJuly 2000My father had a terrible childhood. He and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz. I’m not sure, but I think his family all died there. I know that my father and grandpa were there, and that grandpa died there.My father was the only one of his family who survived.He was transported to […]
His tunes meant bread,water,fire,rain and sun
Jan Horváth August 2000StudénkaI would like to tell you the story of a man who has made history in Romany music. Unfortunately he is no longer with us. He died three years ago. Jozef Gina was born into a musical family in May 1928 in the Saris region of the Presov district in eastern Slovakia. […]
So you’re armed, you dirty Gypsy?
Jan Horváth Sr. StudénkaAugust 2000 I am going to tell you what happened to our Indian friend Kumar Vishwanathan, who is well known for helping Roma in the Ostrava region. His organization called Vzájemné souzití (Co-Existence) arranged a summer camp for two groups of Romany children from Ostrava in the beautiful country of the Beskydy […]
I only worry about our clients lack of motivation
Author: Lucie ConkovaLocation: Usti mad LabemA year or so ago I had no idea what a civic association was. But starting a civic group became a kind of fashion among Roms: it brings in easy money.I work in Predlice where the population is ninety-nine per cent Romany. That’s why some sort of a civic group […]
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